Essays on Joke

Abstract

As we all know, humor is an important part of social interaction in our everyday lives. While we might often think of humor as being something practiced by professional comedians on television or in movies, the truth is that virtually every human being engages in humor to one degree or another on an almost daily basis. And this applies to the workplace as much is anyplace else in our lives. People use humor at work for any number of important reasons, such as relieving tension, encouraging improved performance, establishing a leadership position or simply to make others feel at ...

Experience 7

Yes, I know who Muhammad Ali is; one of the greatest boxers of all time. He said those words to inspire other aspiring boxing players to dream, and to do so big.

These two quotes basically mean that all big goals start from one’s dreams and or ambitions.

In the painting that I am about to make, I would paint a picture of Mr. Gates being alone in a quiet room, dreaming, thinking, of the possible next big thing in his area of expertise. This is basically because of the concept of self-definition, which suggests that everything starts from planning and dreaming. Yes, the names written in the song all mean something to me. They ...

Communication

- Workplace Communication - Four major types of communication in a workplace: 1. Lateral Communication – refers to messages that are passed within the same hierarchical level

Example: When board members have meetings among themselves about certain issues, this is called lateral communication

2. Upward Communication – refers to messages that are passed from a lower level of hierarchy to a higher level

Example: When a staff member notifies the leader about difficulties of performance, that kind of message is called upward communication

3. Downward Communication – refers to messages that are passed from a higher level of hierarchy to a lower level Example: When implementations of goals or strategies are passed from the supervisor to the employees, the memo is then called a downward communication 4. Grapevine Messages – informal messages that are often based on rumours or gossips ...

Jimi Hendrix’s cover of the Bob Dylan folk song, “All Along the Watchtower,” adapts the song from Dylan’s mellow and malicious folk song to an exuberant, angry rock anthem for young people in the late 1960s. Under Jimi’s alterations, the instrumentation turns ominous and aggressive, his exuberant vocals sounding almost pleading. The song contains a limited chord structure and longer-than-usual musical sections, as well as unsettling improvisation and call-and-response from the vocals and guitar. The combination of all these musical elements make the listener, especially one who was young in 1968 (when the song was ...

In the contemporary society, aboriginal jokes have ceased to have impact with which they were intended initially. This can be attributed to several factors among them civilization, globalization and formation of multicultural societies as opposed to ancient societies where races played an important role in the jokes boundaries. This has made them to function entirely as sources of humor and not have cynic meaning as they were initially intended to communicate.

There are many factors which can be claimed to have fueled the process of reduction in impact of aboriginal jokes. These factors can be perfectly explained from some ...

This religious studies response paper raises and focuses particular points laid out in the instructional questions, which hopefully leads to thoughtful consideration of the larger narrative of relevant socio-historical context. The first half and four questions, by way of reminder, explores perhaps what must be understood by the author’s overall purpose in the text so read. The last half of eight questions, seeks to discuss the critical implications for contemporary society as so related. #1. Freud states “For masses are lazy and unintelligent; they have no love for instinctual renunciation, and they are not to be convinced ...

1. The social construct of feeling, gender and humor are associated with the presentation of the self. In a society, there are many people who give importance to the thinking of others. It is however, natural for individuals to desire for making an impression on others. This feeling paves the way to the motivation of behavior, and assisting people to organize and manage their actions. The gender roles also play their role, and exert their influence on how individuals present themselves (Blundell, McNeil & Griffiths, 2003). It is because of the fact that gender also indicates the actions being male and ...

Communication is definitely a great thing. For many of us, however, it simply means involvement into an everyday process of talking to friends or family via phones or the Internet without paying much attention to peculiarities of their communicative needs. Therefore, it is not uncommon for communication failures to take place, and, surprisingly, we hardly bother ourselves to find out what went wrong and learn a lesson from the misunderstanding. It is a good idea, though, to see the misinterpretation situation as a way of shouldering responsibility for insensitivity to your partner’s communication needs and trying to fix it by taking a deeper ...

1. Problem Solving Project 1.1. How Mathematical Problem Solving Can Lead to Excellence, Personal Development and Integrity Outside of a Mathematics Classroom The philosophical understanding of the world, its general laws and basic scientific concepts is not possible without mathematics. Mathematical problem solving leads to excellence, personal development and integrity outside of a mathematics classroom. It helps to analyze, compare and classify objects, establish cause-and-effect relations and patterns, build logical chains of reasoning and develop algorithmic thinking. Mathematics allows us to develop some important mental faculties: analytical, deductive (the ability to generalize), critical, forward-looking (the ability to forecast, ...

Hard Decisions in the Movie Crash

Introduction Crash is a crime drama film that was produced in 2004. It is directed by Paul Haggis who is also the producer and its co-writer. Paul Haggis was inspired by a real life carjacking incident that took place in Wilshire Boulevard outside a video store in 1991. It focuses on racism and as well as social tension present in California. Starring is Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Episto, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Chris Bridges, Thandie Newton, Ryan Phillipe and Larenz Tate .

Dilemmas Facing the Characters

The aspect of racism present in Los Angeles as portrayed in the movie is obvious. ...

1. The Honecker joke scene presents Wiesler and his boss Grubitz in a conversation. Grubitz scorns Wiesler, who responds by stating that “Socialism must start somewhere.” This shows how the two different individuals view the issue on socialism after the joke on Erich. Erich was the East Germany leader, and during that time, making jokes about the political figures was classically prohibited. Those who made jokes about the leaders were jailed. Grubitz after the joke informs Stigler that he has committed political litigation, and that would cost his career. After a moment of silence, he bursts out laughing and states ...

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SFX : music Announcer: Diet Coke presents: News Makers Hall of Fame Singer: (News Makers Hall of Fame) Announcer: Today we salute you Mr. Fake hair wearer Singer: (Mr. Fake hair wearer) Announcer: Hey you Mr. periwig-pated fellow, even Shakespeare would be disappointed in your unnatural acts. But that doesn’t worry you; you keep wearing it every day.

Singer: (Periwig-pated fellow)

Announcer: You were once heard saying your wig has grown longer. Singer: (Ooh what a joke) Announcer: It’s no joke! You do everything in it. Shower, shave, and you gel it like it’ ...

Introduction

One of the famous irrational number in mathematics is the number e which has a value: e= 2.71828 18284 59045 23536 02874 71352 66249 77572 47093 69995 The number e was named by the Swiss-German mathematician, Leonhard Euler, in 17th century. It is frequently called Euler's number after his name; however, the letter e stands for the word exponential. The number e is the base of the natural logarithms that is created by John Napier. In the year 1737, Euler employed the symbol for pi to denote the ratio of the circumference to the diameter within a circle. Then, in ...

Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi” is a story jeweled with lofty ideologies about religion, faith and morality. Martel institutes the character of Pi, providing a rich context of character progression through his tumultuous experiences at the ocean developing him to be morally intact and mature. Pi’s extraordinary story highlights his inner struggles to stay sane and morally intact, making him victorious and become a fully developed man afterwards. The experiences of Pi in the sea with a Bengal man-eating tiger is no joke. In fact, his extreme experiences test his sanity and faith as he battles for survival. Pi experiences the ...

Chaucer’s “The Canterbury Tales” is a selection of stories that pilgrims use to tell stories that occurred as they traveled to a holy shrine in Canterbury. At first reading, “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Knight’s Tale” appear inconsistent and incomparable. Nevertheless, a closer reading of the two stories shows that the both stories are similar. The elements in the “The Miller’s Tale” reflects those in “The Knight’s Tale”. Arguably, the characters’ identities are different, yet the romance in both tales remains the same to an extent. In essence, the characters are basically the same in the two ...

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Essence of ‘To Live’ Historical accuracy and sensitivity is one of the most important aspects that weigh heavily on the film To Live (1994), which is directed by Zhang Yimou. From a viewer’s point of view, the film is an interesting event-raveling depiction of what occurred half a century or so ago in China. This put the sequence of events into an epoch when the country was under what can be said to be a transformation characterized by a series of both political and social changes. By then, China was run by the political regime headed by Mao Zedong and this ...

The time period in which the graphic novel The Watchmen is set is the mid 1980’s. The group of vigilantes called the Watchmen have been banned from continuing to work fighting crime. Although they were previously respected and had great power, they have come to be viewed with fear and hatred. New York has fallen into disrepair and crime is rampant due to a nuclear cold war between the United States and Russia. Rorschach, one of the Watchmen, begins to unlawfully investigate the murder of Edward Blake who worked for the Government under the codename the Comedian. None of ...

Puns and Riddles in School-Aged Children

I went to my neighborhood to observe the school aged children. They were children from kindergarten to grade two. Their ages were ranging from two to seven years, and six among them were girls; while four were boys. I asked them many riddles, pun on words, and recorded the following information. A pun is a funny application of word/words that have similar sounds, but are changed in meaning; or simply call it a play with words. Homonyms and polysemy is used in puns to make them humorous as homonyms are words having same sounds and lexical polysemy is about having ...

In today’s stressful life, seeing people smile for no reason is so pleasant. It’s just like a surprise freebie after spending a bomb on shopping. Good humored people are always in demand. Their smile in the unhappy situations of life makes things seem so light. The usual intent to tell a joke is to make people laugh. Jokes may or may not be verbal; they can be practical jokes or just some puns. They might make use of similes to add to humor, like a person once said “my girlfriend is like an okay movie, but I can’t see it ...

Flannery O, Connor, born Mary Flannery O’ Connor, is the author of two novels but is best known for her short stories. The most popular of these is thought to be A Good Man Is Hard to Find. She is considered a southern writer, who often used the south as a setting. She was not known for using characters that were easy to relate to, yet she is considered one of the most important voices in literary history, according to Harold Bloom’s “Flannery O’ Connor.” Bloom also commented that she used her stories to reflect her own religious values, which ...

Every person knows William Shakespeare, who is considered to be one of the greatest English writers. He was born and raised in Stafford-upon-Avenue. Right in his hometown, he had found his wife -Anne Hathaway. During his writing career, he wrote down 154 sonnets, 2 poems and 38 plays. Two of his best known sonnets are ‘Sonnet 18’ - “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day” and ‘Sonnet 130’ - “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like a sun”. They both have present similarities and difference between them. They are written in the same Shakespearean format - sonnet. Both of ...

Introduction

In the documentary, The Bro Code: How Contemporary Culture Creates Sexist Men, director Thomas Keith examines the ways in which popular culture continue to reward and reinforce sexism, predominantly among men and young boys. The film displays how a hostile climate towards women has been created by media, men and various other forces in the society. The filmmaker also places emphasis on how men are supervised and kept under surveillance of male behavior, which emphasizes sexist views and actions that harm men and is an obvious danger to women. This paper consists of the film critic's perspective and identifies the ...

Introduction

The film Last Vegas, directed by Jon Turteltaub, was released in 2013. It stars cinematic heavyweights like Michael Douglas, Robert De Niro, Morgan Freeman, and Kevin Kline. Some of these actors, like Kline and Douglas, have faded into general obscurity in recent years, but still have managed to maintain relative clout with their reputations, making this film seem like it was going to be one to remember. Unfortunately, most will probably remember it as one they wish they could forget. The storyline is boring, the jokes are stale, and the material is dull. There are a few redeeming qualities about ...

‘Instructor’s Name’

Stereotypes in the ‘Rush Hour’ Movies Stereotypes are in general regrettable and avoidable. They sometimes act as a prism through which the society views any actions of a particular community. The extended security checks, people of Middle Eastern origin are subjected to, in Airport securities around the world, shows how some people are naturally put into a particular category because of their origins. President Obama’s speech of how if a black guy walks past, people instinctively lock their car doors is another example of these regrettable stereotypical notions. But then African Americans has been victimized in this nation and stereotyped as ...

Analysis of Jeffery Harrison’s “Our Other Sister”

Jeffery Harrison is one of the few poets who is alivein this twenty-first century and is studied in American Literature. His poetry is unique and more often than not he does not follow the norm of poetry; his poem “Our Other Sister,” is one of those poems, while most poems make a statement his tells a story. Throughout literary history poetry is place in different periods and categories; Jeffery Harrison is a modern day poet who sometimes deviates from the custom of other poets; sometimes he writes without using capital letters at the beginning of his sentences of punctuation at the ...

In her article “Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt”, Jean Kilbourne raises the issue of advertisements and the way they portray women. More importantly, she stresses that they influence young boys and society to mistreat women. The general picture that is build, urges men to be more dominant, forceful and aggressive. Rather than putting emotional intimacy on a pedestal, advertisements rank sexual intimacy higher. This leaves men that actually care to be intimately and emotionally close to a woman with impugned masculinity. I believe that there is a point to the article. Even though I was skeptical when I first began ...

In Charlie Chaplin’s 1940 comedy The Great Dictator, Chaplin’s first silent film, the renowned comedian and silent-film joymaker takes one of his biggest risks – making a film about Adolf Hitler, who at the time of the film’s release was one of the most hated and tyrannical figures alive. More than just the typical slapstick comedy, The Great Dictator sees Chaplin taking many different chances – unlike his previous film, Modern Times, this film would fully embrace the sound era, with nearly the entire film being filled with dialogue and fully-verbose characters. Even riskier than that, however, is the ...

How is the reader presented with an unresolved issue Analysis?

“A Mystery of Heroism” by the author Stephen Crane is a story based on the soldiers at war. The story highlights Fred Collins, a soldier, during one of the civil wars in Europe who goes to look out for water so as to save his fellow soldiers in the middle of the war taking place; his colleague soldiers think his act as being stupid and foolish but Collins thinks it will be a heroic act to get to the well amid the battle and fetch water (Crane, 2010). He feels that since he does intimidated by any fear, passing through the battlefield ...

Once More to the Lake by E. B. White E.B. White used different length sentences in his story Once More to the Lake. Usually the short sentences were the first sentence in a paragraph. That sentence introduced an idea. Then he would add detail with longer sentences by describing the water, or the boats, or the lake itself. The short sentence seemed to catch my attention more just because it was a statement of fact. When I was reading the descriptions I thought more about places I had been and things I have seen trying to picture the lake in ...

Introduction

Sex addiction is defined as "any sexually related, compulsive behavior which interferes with normal living and causes severe stress on family, friends, loved ones and one's work environment," said Patrick Carnes, the author of the pioneering 1983 book "Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction" and creator of the Web site sexhelp.com (Salkin, 2008). Sexual addiction can be called hyper sexuality, nymphomania, satyriasis, compulsive sex conduct and sexual compulsivity. The person is preoccupied with sexual thoughts - thoughts which conflict with their capability to have associations, function correctly, and move about their day to day activities. Several say that ...

Business Plan Process Analysis

Background and Knowledge Accumulation Development of a business plan is an essential process for the success of any business and especially for the start-ups. New entrepreneurs are faced with the difficult task of developing a successful idea that will see them through in growing and developing a successful business. There are various steps involved in the process of developing a successful business plan. The process of developing a business plan starts with the development of the idea, which will form the basis of the business creation. The idea is then moved in the incubation process, where the entrepreneur consciously and subconsciously accumulates information ...

Diversity in the business context has a wide variety of meanings depending on the intensions of the person defining it. The term could be used in the contexts of business portfolios in defining the portfolio diversity score and collateralized debt obligation, market diversification growth strategy, workforce diversity and equality among many others things. In general, diversity is any dimension that helps differentiate things or people in the business world. In this essay, the dimension of workforce diversity is examined. Workplace diversity encompasses age, sexual orientation, gender, ethnicity, language culture, religion, family responsibilities etc. (HATCH, 2008). Diversity is taken to ...

Stephen King

Stephen King, in his essay Why We Crave Horror Movies, takes a humoristic yet insightful take on the human tendency to revel in freak, absurd and morbid expressions through the medium of horror movies. In his essay, King states that everybody is insane and the sanity is only the degree to which a human is insane. He states that people watch horror movies to feed their inner demons and to lock up their insanity to be acceptable to the society. The essay portrays rather disturbingly the truth behind people’s need to watch horror movies.

Use of Literary Devices

In this essay, the author has ...

Introduction

Gender is a word mostly used according to the sphere of study. It generally describes femininity or masculinity of a person and what each is associated to or roles attached to each. It is also extended to cover the state of being either a male or a female. Several gender roles are attached to ethnicity of a person. Ethnicity on the other hand is the grouping of people according to their ethics and traditions. This can be well elaborated by use tribal names and features that show the ethnic origin of a person.

Thesis statement

In most African countries, ethnicity has taken root in the society ...

The American south, or simply the south, has been one of the most stereotyped areas throughout the history of the United States. The negative portrayal of the southern inhabitants has been going on for long to the extent that southerners have come to accept the portrayal. Majorly, individuals living in the south tend be viewed as overly backward in comparison to those living in other sides. In retrospective, the media, through music, has always been a contributing factor to these stereotypes. An epitome of these is reflected in McRobbie’s lamentations. McRobbie reflected that music is the most noticeable and ...

It is commonly said that there is power in the words we speak. This can be seen as just another saying, until an individual has an experience with the power of words spoken to him or her. At times, the words can have different meanings when used in different contexts (Naylor 1). Naylor gave this experience after observing that the word ‘nigger’ had been used so often in her presence but the reality of the word only hit her when it was spoken in a different context. The same case applies to me. Though I am blind, I never used ...

Application of humor in sexuality

The subject of this article is the application of humor in issues of gender or sexuality. Sexuality refers to issues of a person’s sexual orientation or preferences. It can also be used to denote someone’s capacity for sexual feelings. On the other hand, humor refers to the quality of being amusing or funny.

Issues of sexuality are among one of the most controversial in the society. Right from an early age, children are taught that matters of sexuality are not to be talked about in public. So much effort goes to making children compliant with this rule. This ...

Donna Barstow, a political cartoonist who draws for publications such as Psychology Today, and who claims to draw for The New Yorker and other such publications, has a very unique yet impenetrable style. In her cartoons "Arnold as Baby-daddy for Father's Day" and "Nobody is Born a Conservative," a strange amalgam of technique, style and depiction of humor is used to attempt at political discourse. However, it must be ultimately stated that her cartoons are devoid of clear message, crudely drawn, and obtuse to the point of uselessness. These two cartoons, after careful analysis, seem to attempt at analysis and statement but instead ...

Zachery Sniderman’s article, How to: Recover from a Social Media PR Disaster, makes for interesting and entertaining reading. He covers the varying types of mistakes that can be made on social media, along with possible ways of dealing with such mistakes. Overall, Sniderman covers the topic in suitable depth, but certain issues are skirted around.

Sniderman opens by enticing the reader into a situation to which most people can relate; almost everyone can remember a time when they have suddenly had the sinking realisation that they have made a bad mistake. The author then goes on to discuss such mistakes in the ...

Jimi Hendrix’s cover of the Bob Dylan folk song, “All Along the Watchtower,” adapts the song from Dylan’s mellow and malicious folk song to an exuberant, angry rock anthem for young people in the late 1960s. Under Jimi’s alterations, the instrumentation turns ominous and aggressive, his exuberant vocals sounding almost pleading. The song contains a limited chord structure and longer-than-usual musical sections, as well as unsettling improvisation and call-and-response from the vocals and guitar (Zak, 2005). The combination of all these musical elements make the listener, especially one who was young in 1968 (when the song was ...

Loneliness is part of human condition

Steinback’s novella Of Men and Mice is set in a grim economic dystopia of migrant workers on a Californian ranch where the two protagonists Lennie and George share the dream owning their own farm someday despite the meagre conditions they were subject to. The novella has been applauded as well as criticized for its staunch realism or what was portrayed as realism in cases of excessive sentimentality. In this paper, we shall compare and contrast the two main characters of Lennie and George in order to reflect on a theme that is relevant for each and every one of Steinback’s ...